Balloon Boy Falcon Heene Found Alive Hiding At Home

Questions About Possible Balloon Boy Publicity Stunt Continue

And that is our top story this midday.Hello, I'm Rosemary Shultz.There was a giant sigh of relief when a six year old boy was found in his Colorado home...A national audience had tracked a runway helium balloon when everyone though the boy was inside...But as Drew Levinson reports: this may not be the end of the story.This home video shows the drama beginning in the family backyard. Falcon Heene's parents were there when the homemade helium balloon took off. After it floated away, Bradford Heene said he had seen his little brother climb inside.Richard Heene says, ''The very second Bradford told me I didn't believe him, we ran around the house searching for Falcon. It was building and building and building, the reality of this might be true.''Richard Heene said he called the FAA and then 911. He also called a local television station. Cable networks followed the balloon on its 50 mile journey. When the saucer like craft finally came down in a field and Falcon wasn't inside, his father said he feared the worst.Heene says, ''I immediately thought he had fallen out.The six year old had been hiding in the garage all along.Falcon Heene says, ''They didn't find me, I just came out.''Once Falcon was safe here, questions about whether this was all a publicity stunt quickly followed.The Heene family is no stranger to the spotlight, appearing on the reailty TV show Wife Swap and making a name for themselves as storm chasers.Falcon fueled speculation this was a stunt. He was asked during a CNN interview why he didn't come out when everyone was calling his name.Falcon says, ''You had said that we did this for a show.''Richard Heene now insists his son was talking about the camera crews at the house after he was found.The County Sheriff said his investigators don't believe this was a hoax... but they do want to interview the family again.Drew Levinson, CBS News, Fort Collins, CO

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[bevon17]

I honestly think they make his crap up so we can all forget about the war

[Melindaca2]

I just really wanna know when the National News started covering Jerry Springer type clips and information>? LOL

[teddybear97able]

He was not in the balloon... the dad made the whole thing up.

[Hermione5445]

They made it up to get attention.

[fukidomev2]

Falcon admitted it HAHAHAHAHAHAHA!

[FpSGamesFtW]

wow whats your problem.................. it was just a scam and there paying for it... dont wish that falcon would have died hes parents made him do it you doosh bag

[juangarza94]

I wish a raccoon would've got that lil bastard in the attic....

[prominer83]

FALCON

punch

[STRYPERFANSUNITED777]

now hes gonna be Bubbas New Prodigy

[STRYPERFANSUNITED777]

YA THRILLED u idiot that kid never got in that balloon. this was a FAIL at life attempt at a looser getting famous

[missnightrider57]

please cant cps take them kids away from the so unfit no way they need help as well as mom and dad i feel that state needs to take them retarted ass kids and place them in boot camp asp and get them off tv there is more important things going on in this world than fake storys lets get back to the REAL WORLD

[forgottenanimator]

It was the sheriff talking, not the father.